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Cassida

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Taxonomy

Cassida was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Galerucae by Latreille (1802); and to Cassidini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Subtaxa

C. blancheti, C. dufouri, C. hermione, C. interemta, C. kramstae, C. megapenthes

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Cassida Linnaeus p. 362
1761	Cassida Linnaeus p. 152
1762	Cassida Geoffroy p. 310
1763	Cassida Scopoli p. 37
1764	Cassida Müller p. 5
1766	Cassida Schaeffer
1767	Cassida Linnaeus p. 574
1775	Cassida Fabricius p. 88
1776	Cassida Müller p. 65
1796	Cassida Latreille p. 62
1798	Cassida Fabricius p. 81
1802	Cassida Latreille p. 233
2011	Cassida Bouchard et al. p. 512

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola

Rank	Name	Author
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
—	Phytophaga
superfamily	Chrysomeloidea
family	Chrysomelidae	()
subfamily	Cassidinae	Gyllenhal 1813
tribe	Cassidini	Gyllenhal 1813
genus	Cassida

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cassida Linnaeus 1758

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†Cassida blancheti Heer 1856

†Cassida dufouri Piton 1936

†Cassida hermione Heer 1847

†Cassida interemta von Heyden 1862

†Cassida kramstae Förster 1891

†Cassida megapenthes Heer 1847

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Gelasian or 56.00000 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Denmark	C. sp. (156742)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt)	C. sp. (155693)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	France	C. kramstae (121479)
MP 30	28.4 - 23.03	Germany	C. interemta (123945)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)	C. blancheti (122487)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	C. blancheti (122501 122877 152493)
Sarmatian	12.7 - 11.608	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	C. blancheti (122866) C. hermione, C. megapenthes (115304)
Turolian	8.7 - 5.333	France (Ardèche)	C. sp. (113893)
Gelasian	2.588 - 1.806	France	C. dufouri (113996)